GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| fritter | a small mass of fried or sautéed batter often containing fruit or meat |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| aplomb | complete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise |